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The Newsletter of the Economic History Association EHA The Newsletter of the Economic History Association EHA Vancouver , BC Old Lake Bridge, Vancouver Island Editor Michael Haupert No. 34 December 2011 Economic History Association, c/o Alex Field, Executive Director, Santa Clara University, Department of Economics, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053-0385 The 2012 EHA Meetings The Economic History Association will hold its annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia from September 21-23, 2012. EHA President Jeremy Atack has selected ―Revisiting the Transportation Revolution‖ as the theme for the conference. The conference headquarters in Vancouver will be the Sheraton Wall Centre. Generations of economic historians have written extensively about the economic impact of the transportation improvements. Nevertheless, new tools, new data, and new techniques derived from geographic information systems, economic geography, and the like continue to offer better measures of the impact of the improvements in roads, ships, railroads, and planes (and the infrastructure which support them). They also provide new insights into the short and long term effects of these changes and how they have shaped our world by diminishing the importance of space and place. Once upon a time, distance in the form of time and money protected producers and isolated communities and cultures. Improved communications and transportation have eroded these—a process which continues to this day as these technologies evolve. The Program Committee is chaired by Robert Margo (Boston University), and includes Ran Abramitzky (Stanford), Leah Boustan (UCLA), and Eugene White (Rutgers). The committee welcomes submissions on all subjects in economic history, though some preference will be given to papers that specifically fit the above theme. All papers should be submitted individually. Authors may suggest that three particular papers would fit well together in a session but such suggestions are in no way binding upon the committee. Papers should be works in progress, not accepted or published papers. Authors should let the program committee know, at the time of application, if the paper they are proposing has already been submitted for publication. Individuals who presented or co-authored a paper at the 2011 meeting are generally not eligible for inclusion in the 2012 program. Papers and session proposals should be submitted online: www.eh.net/eha/meetings/submissions. The submission system is open from October 24 onwards. Paper proposals should include a 3-5 page précis and a 150-word abstract suitable for publication in the Journal of Economic History. Papers should be submitted by Friday, 27 January, 2012 to ensure consideration. Graduate students are encouraged to attend the meeting. The Association offers subsidies for travel, hotel, registration, and meals, including a special graduate student dinner. A poster session welcomes work from dissertations in progress. Applications for the poster session should be submitted online and are due no later than May 18, 2012. Information on how to submit will be posted at http://eh.net/eha/meetings/2012-meeting. The dissertation session, convened by Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale) and Joachim Voth (Pompeu Fabra), will honor six dissertations completed during the 2011-2012 academic year. The submission deadline is May 15, 2012. The Allan Nevins and Alexander Gerschenkron prizes will be awarded to the best dissertations on North American and non-North American topics respectively. For further information, check http://eh.net/eha/meetings/2012-meeting, which also includes information on travel options to Vancouver, Canada; or contact Meetings Coordinator Jari Eloranta at [email protected]. EHA Grants, Fellowships, and Prizes also use Google Checkout to pay for your membership over the web. The EHA supports research in economic history through various grant programs Application forms for all grants and administered by the Committee on fellowships are available on the EHA Research in Economic History (CREH) website at https://www.eh.net/eha/ and the Annual Meetings Program grants-and-fellowships. Please direct Committee. All applicants for or any questions to the chair of the CREH, recipients of an EHA grant or prize must Professor Aldo Musacchio, at be members of the Association, and all [email protected]. application materials must be submitted electronically (see instructions below). A Arthur H. Cole Grants in Aid: The downloadable membership form is Committee on Research in Economic available online at: History awards Arthur H. Cole grants-in- http://eh.net/eha/membership. You can aid to support research in economic history, regardless of time period or 2 geographic area. Awards typically are in specific research purposes (for example, amounts up to $5000, although higher visiting archives or purchase of amounts may be awarded in exceptional microfilm or CD-ROMs) and in most cases. Applicants must be members of instances will not exceed $2,500. They the Association and must hold the Ph.D. are nonrenewable, but recipients are degree. Preference is given to recent eligible to apply in a subsequent year for Ph.D. recipients. a Graduate dissertation fellowship (see above). DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 1, 2012. Awards announced by DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 31, 2012. January 13, 2012. Awards announced by February 24, 2012. The following three programs are for those who have not yet received the Annual Meetings Travel and Hotel Ph.D. degree: Subsidies: Graduate Students interested in disseminating preliminary results Sokoloff Dissertation Fellowships: from their thesis work may apply to Dissertation Fellowships are intended for participate in the poster session at the students whose thesis topic has been Annual Meetings. Those accepted approved and who have made some receive the following support: progress towards completion of the dissertation. Applicants must be Travel subsidies up to $500 for members of the Association, and domestic flights or train fare, up dissertation fellowships are not to $800 for international flights. renewable. Funds awarded during this Complimentary hotel rooms application cycle are intended to provide (double occupancy, shared with support during the 2012-13 academic another graduate student) for up year. Sokoloff Fellowship Awards are to 3 nights. for $15,000. Thanks to a generous gift 60 percent discount on the from the estate of Kenneth Sokoloff and registration fee subsequent individual contributions, this 80 percent discount on the fellowship honors the major Saturday Presidential Banquet contributions of Kenneth Sokolff to Free dinner with other graduate economic history, and in particular his students Friday night. care and concern for the many students he introduced to economic history. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: May 18, 2012. Awards announced by DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: June 15, 2012. January 13, 2012. Awards announced by February 24, 2012. Those interested in presenting a poster should apply on the EHA website. An Exploratory Travel and Data Grants: online system for submitting an Exploratory Travel and Data Grants are application to present a poster will open early stage grants for doctoral students by March 5, 2012. Questions about the writing a dissertation in economic poster session should be directed to history. They provide funding for Professor Robert Margo, chair of the 3 program committee at [email protected]. annually for the best dissertations on Graduate students who have presented a North-American and non-North poster are eligible for the dissertation American topics completed during the session in a subsequent year, but may previous year. Six finalists, three for not participate in the poster session two each award, will be chosen to present years in a row. dissertation summaries at the annual meeting of the Economic History Graduate students interested in attending Association in Vancouver in September the annual meeting but not participating 2012. Finalists will receive $250 to in the poster session are eligible, defray travel expenses. Award recipients depending on funding availability, for up receive a cash prize of $1,200. to three nights' complimentary hotel room (double occupancy, shared with Eligibility: Those who received another graduate student). Applicants their Ph.D. between June 1, 2011 and must be members of the Association. May 15, 2012 are eligible and invited to DEADLINE: July 6, 2012. Awards submit their dissertation. You must be a announced by July 27, 2012. member of the Economic History Association to submit and the Conditions of Support: All recipients dissertation must be in English. Planned of EHA fellowship and grant support attendance at the meeting is required for must file a short (one or two page) report submitting an application, and presentation of a summary is required on how they spent their money and how for a prize. To be considered for either it facilitated their research. This report of these prizes, completed dissertations should be filed by August 31 of the year must be submitted in hard copy on or subsequent to receipt of the funds and before May 15, 2012. Decisions will be can be sent as an email attachment to announced by July 23, 2012. Professor Aldo Musacchio, chair of the Dissertations will not be returned unless Committee on Research in Economic return postage is prepaid. History, at [email protected]. Scholars submitting a dissertation may not in the same year submit a proposal to Prizes the general program that is part of or The EHA recognizes excellence in derived from the dissertation. On an research, publication, and teaching of exception basis the Association economic history by awarding several will allow a two year window following annual and biennial prizes at the thesis completion for submission. President's Awards Banquet during the annual meetings. Each fall the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Announcements page on the EHA web Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian site (http://eh.net/eha/prizes) and the Economic History completed during the EHA newsletter include Calls for previous year is awarded annually by the Nominations and submission Economic History Association. 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